SECURITY
Terrorist Arrested During Search Operation
Malakand: Security forces have arrested proclaimed terrorist Khairullah alias Khainu during an operation in Malakand. According to details, Special Unit conducted a raid in Barkat Market and took the suspect into custody. The officers have also cordoned off the entire area and shifted the detainee to some undisclosed location for interrogation. Khyber News , The Frontier Post
Attacker Killed, Policeman Injured in Gun Attack on Census Team
Charsadda: A police official sustained injuries when unknown armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a population and household census team in Sehray Harichand area of Charsadda. The security personnel retaliated to the firing and injured the attacker. The attacker was arrested in injured condition and shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital where he died. Khyber News , Dawn
66pc Fall in Violent Incidents in Pakistan – CRSS Report
Islamabad: Violence related incidents declined in 2016 as compared to the year before, and casualties from violence were half the number of casualties in 2015, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) annual security report revealed. The report recorded a 66pc fall in violence-related incidents since 2014, but noted that terrorist groups have changed their strategy for suicide attacks and instead of sending in one suicide bomber to a location, sent two. Dawn
Search Operation in Kasur
Kasur: Police and other law-enforcement agencies claimed to have arrested 33 suspects, 17 of them belonging to Bajaur Agency, during an operation as part of the National Action Plan. According to District Police Officer Ali Nasir Rizvi, a search operation was conducted in Railway Road, Adda Lalyani, Karishna Nagar, Rara Gujran, Kot Radha Kishan, Kanganpur and Phoolnagar areas. He said LEAs took into custody 33 suspects and recovered illegal weapons, liquor and narcotics. Dawn
SOCIO-ECONOMIC
Militancy-hit Schools Rebuilt in Malakand
Malakand: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has claimed that the most of schools destroyed during militancy in Malakand division have been reconstructed. Taimur Ali, media coordinator of PDMA-PaRRSA, told that around 182 schools were targeted in Malakand division by extremists between 2008 and 2011, out of which 179 schools had been reconstructed. Dawn
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Pak-Afghan Border Crossings in Three Agencies Still Suspended
FATA: After Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif orders, Torkham and Chaman border points were resumed for all kinds of movement; however, other points along with Afghan border that include Kharlachi, Tarimangal and Sheedano Dand of Kurram Agency, Lawara Boya Datta Khel, Ghulam Khan of North Waziristan Agency and Angoor Ada of South Waziristan Agency still remain suspended. Radio TNN
